This work did not originate from a fixed plan or a pre-selected method.
It took shape gradually, through proximity, attention, and time.

In the 1980s, working with people began for me not in a practice room, but in a garden.

An alternative activity center at the A-Kerkhof in Groningen, where people came in without a plan and often without words.

There I learned that growth does not arise from intervention, but from a foundation.
That people, just like plants, do not want to be rushed.
That timing is more important than technique.

There were busy times and quiet times.
People came, stayed, and left again.
Nothing needed to be solved; presence was sufficient.
What emerged there was not an approach, but an attitude: staying, watching, waiting, trusting that something will find its own moment.

That way of working has never disappeared.
Later came training, frameworks, and language, but the ground was already there.
The attention to rhythm, resilience, and what is not yet ready to bloom, takes root there.

This place is not an endpoint, but an intermediate space.
A greenhouse where growth is possible without pressure.
The original garden no longer exists as a place, but lives on as an underlying tone in everything offered here.